BEAM Grab the Mic webinar

How the market systems approach can be used to improve working conditions and job quality. This webinar explores evidence and experiences from the ILO/Marketshares report, Market systems and job quality, and includes a practitioner's perspective of the Myanmar garment industry.

More jobs and higher wages are tangible, important and objective goals. But quality is important too. Low quality jobs have considerable impacts on workers, and keep poor families trapped in perilous living and working conditions. At their worst, they can limit a family’s ability to survive and inflict severe consequences on a worker’s health.

The ILO Lab, together with Marketshare Associates, recently mapped evidence from the field to learn what’s been done, what’s been effective and how projects and donors can better address job quality in the future. Their report draws on the practical lessons and experiences from 18 projects to help guide practitioners and donors on a path toward more effectively tackling job quality in market systems programming.